Category Archives: #Throwback Thursday

We got back to 2000 this week in our regular #throwbackthursday column. The arrival of the German football team series isn’t the first time football (soccer to the uneducated) and LEGO have mixed. There was a short lived the...

I think we do a good job here of getting a look at the history of LEGO sets through our section #ThrowbackThursday. More for the models than the literature which I am documenting via our Memory Lane section. In 1979, LEGO came up ...

Last weeks article was very popular and I’ve decided to focus on something similar this week. I’ve gone back in time and picked 5 classic LEGO Town sets that still put recent City sets to shame. I still think the town ...

This week we are looking at more than just one set as this summer will see the arrival of a brand new City set – 60132: Service Station. This is the first gas/petrol/service station we have seen for a few years but I noticed...

We go back to 1991 for this week’s #throwbackthursday as I look at another set from my childhood. This was the other set I owned that had the ramp and pit baseplate and was the largest Pirate-themed island base from the enti...

Morning fellow Brick Fanatics, it’s Thursday and time to look back at passed LEGO sets. It’s nice to see our #ThrowbackThursday feature that we have been doing since 2014 getting picked up by other sites. It’s gr...

We here are Brick Fanatics HQ are embracing the new big bang theme Nexo Knights. It is slowly winning over even me who these days find it hard to part with money on standard LEGO sets, but there is something about this new theme t...

You could say that the piece count on some LEGO sets is bordering on the ridiculous. Take the AROCS Technic truck – 2700+ elements to build the bugger. Massive. And the build takes forever with that volume of parts to put together...